Previously offered at $24.95!Breathless Homicidal Slime Mutants celebrates the mass-market paperback and gives it its due. A vibrant tour that starts with books from the late 19th-century up to today, examining the most popular genres - mystery, romance, Westerns, how-to, cooking, and diet, and highbrow literature packaged for the broader audience - it focuses on the history of the art and design of the format and how it is inseparable from the history of American literacy, tastes, and mores of the 20th-century.